The Anchoress
Okay, the emails are sounding very, very down.
Here is morning prayer preceded by about a 5 minute, extemporaneous pep talk inspired by the emails.
I have no idea what I’m blathering on about or whether it will help, but there it is.
Pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Incorporate this into your life. It will change your perspective and give you the patience to take the long view. I promise. And, if you are inclined, pray the various mysteries of the rosary. Contemplative prayer changes everything, really.
Audio Liturgy of the Hours (all of ’em, every day) can be found here, and as you can see by the ad on the right sidebar, you can download that into your iThingy.
You can read the LotH here. It’s slightly different than what I am reading but mostly the same.
The Breviary I use is the Christian Prayer Breviary, but if you’re looking for shorter morning and evening prayers, alternating Complines, and terrific daily readings, meditations, and scriptural readings, I cannot recommend a subscription to Magnificat Magazine highly enough. It’s portable, incredibly useful and instructive and I use mine everyday, for one reason or another.
I’ll put together a collection of other prayer books and related items, so check back.
UPDATE: Julie has a good idea: ramp up the Lenten fasting!
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